META Events

Presenters

David RiecksDavid is a respected correspondent, consultant and educator on metadata and workflow issues. As SAA's Imaging Technology Standards chair, he has led efforts to raise awareness of metadata issues industry wide and promote best practices to protect and preserve digital images. He has been a featured speaker at International Metadata Conference events, the Microsoft Pro Photo Summit, ASPP's Education Conference, PDN's PhotoPlus Expo, Picture Archive Council of America (PACA), and numerous association chapter events.

David has been a key participant in developing industry metadata standards, representing stock photographers as a participant in the IPTC4XMP working group, which developed the IPTC Core metadata schema, and authored the popular User's guide to the IPTC Core. He was a founding member of the Universal Photographic Digital Imaging Guidelines coalition (UPDIG), serves as the Chief Technical Advisor to the Picture Licensing Universal System coalition (PLUS), represents photographers on two IDEAlliance working groups (Digital Image Submission Criteria, and Digital Image Metadata Management) as well as the IPTC Photo Metadata Working group.

David has also authored numerous articles about digital imaging, and his ControlledVocabulary.com website and forum provides an invaluable resource to pros and students on keywording and embedding metadata into images, and he is sought after as a consultant by businesses building image collections.

Grover SanschagrinAn industry veteran, Grover Sanschagrin started his career as a photojournalist, has vast experience with online productions including major roles with SportsShooter.com, ChicagoTribune.com and the Quokka Sports Network (including NBCOlympics.com and FinalFour.net). Sanschagrin studied photography and photojournalism at the Rochester Institute of Technology and Ohio University. He has spoken at numerous industry conferences and universities with one goal: to educate photographers about the importance of building a successful online marketing strategy that will result in more assignments, more image sales, and less time in front of a computer.

Brad ManginBrad Mangin is a freelance sports photographer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. His regular clients include Sports Illustrated and Major League Baseball Photos. After graduating from San Jose State University he worked for several newspapers, including The National Sports Daily (where he washired by Neil Leifer), before starting to freelance in 1993. Mangin has covered several Super Bowls, World Series, NBA Finals games and the Olympics. He regularly covers spring training in Arizona for Sports Illustrated and the World Series for Major League Baseball. Mangin's website (www.manginphotography.com) contains many of his pictures and is the home of his searchable archive containing over 26,000 of his pictures. Mangin is also a founding partner and managing editor of SportsShooter.com, an online community and resource for sports photographers and other working photojournalists.

David SangerBay Area travel photographer David Sanger currently shoots for Getty Images and Alamy as well as commercial, travel and non-profit clients and design firms in the US, Asia and Europe. David served as president and board member of the Stock Artists Alliance, representing stock photographers worldwide, and is currently chair of the SAA legal committee. He has photographed in 100 countries and his work is widely published in advertisements, books and magazines worldwide. Before launching his photography career, David worked in corporate consulting in database and metadata analysis. His website is www.davidsanger.com

Sara Wolfram

SEATTLE

David RiecksDavid is a respected correspondent, consultant and educator on metadata and workflow issues. As SAA's Imaging Technology Standards chair, he has led efforts to raise awareness of metadata issues industry wide and promote best practices to protect and preserve digital images. He has been a featured speaker at International Metadata Conference events, the Microsoft Pro Photo Summit, ASPP's Education Conference, PDN's PhotoPlus Expo, Picture Archive Council of America (PACA), and numerous association chapter events.

David has been a key participant in developing industry metadata standards, representing stock photographers as a participant in the IPTC4XMP working group, which developed the IPTC Core metadata schema, and authored the popular User's guide to the IPTC Core. He was a founding member of the Universal Photographic Digital Imaging Guidelines coalition (UPDIG), serves as the Chief Technical Advisor to the Picture Licensing Universal System coalition (PLUS), represents photographers on two IDEAlliance working groups (Digital Image Submission Criteria, and Digital Image Metadata Management) as well as the IPTC Photo Metadata Working group.

David has also authored numerous articles about digital imaging, and his ControlledVocabulary.com website and forum provides an invaluable resource to pros and students on keywording and embedding metadata into images, and he is sought after as a consultant by businesses building image collections.

Grover Sanschagrin An industry veteran, Grover Sanschagrin started his career as a photojournalist, has vast experience with online productions including major roles with SportsShooter.com, ChicagoTribune.com and the Quokka Sports Network (including NBCOlympics.com and FinalFour.net). Sanschagrin studied photography and photojournalism at the Rochester Institute of Technology and Ohio University. He has spoken at numerous industry conferences and universities with one goal: to educate photographers about the importance of building a successful online marketing strategy that will result in more assignments, more image sales, and less time in front of a computer.

Brian SmaleBrian began his career in his hometown of Toronto, Canada more than two decades ago. After winning many magazine assignments and a few awards, he moved to New York where he found more magazine assignments, a few more awards, and lots of commercial work. He is widely known for his portraits of the world’s leading businessmen and women, scientists, inventors, politicians, and a few very interesting oddballs. Brian brings the same good humor and passion along to all his editorial, advertising, and corporate shoots. Along with assignments for magazines such as Fortune, BusinessWeek, Forbes, Fast Company, Esquire, GQ, Rolling Stone, and Spin, he also has a wide range of commerical clients including duPont, Fuji, GE Capital, Kodak, Microsoft, PPL, Real Networks, Seattle Children's Hospital, Sega, Homestreet Bank, Symetra Insurance, Expeditors, and USAA Insurance. Two recent interviews can be found at Design Taxi, and Wise Elephant. Brian now resides in Seattle with his wife, two children, and an old blind dog.

David SangerBay Area travel photographer David Sanger currently shoots for Getty Images and Alamy as well as commercial, travel and non-profit clients and design firms in the US, Asia and Europe. David served as president and board member of the Stock Artists Alliance, representing stock photographers worldwide, and is currently chair of the SAA legal committee. He has photographed in 100 countries and his work is widely published in advertisements, books and magazines worldwide. Before launching his photography career, David worked in corporate consulting in database and metadata analysis. His website is www.davidsanger.com

Natalie FobesNatalie Fobes is one of the most diverse photographers in the country. The Pulitzer prize finalist has shot assignments for National Geographic, Smithsonian, Audubon and other major magazines. Her images of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill are iconographic and she is known as the "salmon lady" due to her 10 year project photographing and writing about the salmon and the cultures of the salmon around the Pacific Rim. Her work is included in many public, private and corporate collections. Natalie's fine art portraiture and her wedding photography have won national recognition. The author of three coffee-table books has received many grants and commissions to pursue the documentary stories that need to be told. She has camped out in the winter in Siberia with the Chukchi reindeer herders and perched in a blind in the cloud forest of Guatemala. Natalie's current documentary is on the impact of China's one-child policy in that country and the United States. She teaches in the acclaimed photography program at Seattle Central Community College and most recently gave a presentation on the documentary photostory at the WPPI conference. Natalie is one of the co-founders of Blue Earth Alliance, a non-profit dedicated to helping photographers shoot documentary stories about the environment, endangered cultures and social issues.

LOS ANGELES

David RiecksDavid is a respected correspondent, consultant and educator on metadata and workflow issues. As SAA's Imaging Technology Standards chair, he has led efforts to raise awareness of metadata issues industry wide and promote best practices to protect and preserve digital images. He has been a featured speaker at International Metadata Conference events, the Microsoft Pro Photo Summit, ASPP's Education Conference, PDN's PhotoPlus Expo, Picture Archive Council of America (PACA), and numerous association chapter events.

David has been a key participant in developing industry metadata standards, representing stock photographers as a participant in the IPTC4XMP working group, which developed the IPTC Core metadata schema, and authored the popular User's guide to the IPTC Core. He was a founding member of the Universal Photographic Digital Imaging Guidelines coalition (UPDIG), serves as the Chief Technical Advisor to the Picture Licensing Universal System coalition (PLUS), represents photographers on two IDEAlliance working groups (Digital Image Submission Criteria, and Digital Image Metadata Management) as well as the IPTC Photo Metadata Working group.

David has also authored numerous articles about digital imaging, and his ControlledVocabulary.com website and forum provides an invaluable resource to pros and students on keywording and embedding metadata into images, and he is sought after as a consultant by businesses building image collections.

Helena RuffinAward-winning photographer Helena Ruffin grew up in Detroit and graduated from Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan, where she began taking pictures as campus photographer. Over the course of the last 30+ years, Helena has photographed people, places and things by traveling extensively throughout the world. She has practiced her craft in many European countries including France, Spain, and Italy, as well as the United Kingdom, USSR and subsequently The Russian Federation, and then finally realizing her dream of photographing in Africa. Ruffin's work take the mundane and force us to confront its essential strangeness. Through a change of perspective or scale, we are allowed to see something as common as flowers or twigs in a new and powerful light. Under her practiced eye, seemingly ordinary scenes (holiday shoppers, a man waiting for a train, a boat at sea) are transformed into something weightier, more complex, unsettling and poignant.She also has a profound grasp of the way surface details reveal deeper truths and her use of light and color gives her work a seductive rhythm and energy. Above all, perhaps, Ruffin has a gift for capturing the telling detail, the fleeting moment, the humanity to be found, even in inanimate objects. In 2006 and 2007, Ruffin won entry twice in The Art of Photography Show, an international exhibition of photographic art featuring world class work from around the world.

David SangerBay Area travel photographer David Sanger currently shoots for Getty Images and Alamy as well as commercial, travel and non-profit clients and design firms in the US, Asia and Europe. David served as president and board member of the Stock Artists Alliance, representing stock photographers worldwide, and is currently chair of the SAA legal committee. He has photographed in 100 countries and his work is widely published in advertisements, books and magazines worldwide. Before launching his photography career, David worked in corporate consulting in database and metadata analysis. His website is www.davidsanger.com

Andrea WilsonPhotographer Andrea Wilson specializes in motorsports photography, with an emphasis on motorcycle road racing. In addition to racing photography she also shoots feature stories for magazines and assignment work for many of the major OEM's. In addition to her work in motorcycling, Andrea also works in the personal watercraft industry, shooting both racing and feature stories. Andrea's work can be found at http://www.andreawilsonphotography.com/

Jeff Sedlik

Jeff Sedlik is President and CEO of the PLUS Coalition (Picture Licensing Universal System), a worldwide non-profit coalition of picture licensors and licensees, dedicated to the development and implementation of image licensing standards and systems. A leading advertising, editorial and fine art photographer, Sedlik is the past president of the Advertising Photographers of America, and a popular speaker at industry conferences, workshops and events. Sedlik is an authority on the business of image licensing, and provides expert witness and consulting services to clients in the photography, design, advertising and publishing industries. A professor at the Art Center College of Design, Sedlik teaches courses on business and technical topics. Sedlik received the 2005 "Photography Industry Leadership Award" from the International Photography Council, and was named the 2006 Photo Media "Photography Person of the Year."

NEW YORK CITY

David RiecksDavid is a respected correspondent, consultant and educator on metadata and workflow issues. As SAA's Imaging Technology Standards chair, he has led efforts to raise awareness of metadata issues industry wide and promote best practices to protect and preserve digital images. He has been a featured speaker at International Metadata Conference events, the Microsoft Pro Photo Summit, ASPP's Education Conference, PDN's PhotoPlus Expo, Picture Archive Council of America (PACA), and numerous association chapter events.

David has been a key participant in developing industry metadata standards, representing stock photographers as a participant in the IPTC4XMP working group, which developed the IPTC Core metadata schema, and authored the popular User's guide to the IPTC Core. He was a founding member of the Universal Photographic Digital Imaging Guidelines coalition (UPDIG), serves as the Chief Technical Advisor to the Picture Licensing Universal System coalition (PLUS), represents photographers on two IDEAlliance working groups (Digital Image Submission Criteria, and Digital Image Metadata Management) as well as the IPTC Photo Metadata Working group.

David has also authored numerous articles about digital imaging, and his ControlledVocabulary.com website and forum provides an invaluable resource to pros and students on keywording and embedding metadata into images, and he is sought after as a consultant by businesses building image collections.

Allen Murabayashi Allen Murabayashi was a member of his junior high photo club and shot with an Olympus OM-10. His most memorable experience loading film came when he stepped out of the darkroom and wondered why he was able to see the roll of film through the top of the tank (wrong cover). He graduated from Yale University, and took his first job in New York at Penthouse magazine, which helped him to continue his love affair with photography. He was a founding employee of hotjobs.com, and later co-founded PhotoShelter and serves as its CEO.

Chris OwyoungChris Owyoung is an NYC-based photographer specializing in live performances and music portraits. His portfolio includes members of The Metropolitan Opera alongside artists like Bruce Springsteen, Erykah Badu, The Cure and Kanye West. His work has appeared in Rolling Stone, Spin, Vibe, The New York Times, New York Magazine, The Village Voice and Billboard. Chris also likes puppies and long walks in the park. Chris' website, www.onelouderphoto.com, ranks highly on google for related terms like "concert photographer".

Lou MannaLou Manna is an award winning Olympus Visionary photographer whose work has appeared in national ad campaigns, major magazines, and more than 30 cookbooks. After shooting for the New York Times from 1975 to 1990, he went on to establish his own Fifth Avenue studio, where he works with corporate, advertising, and restaurant clients. Lou's first book, Digital Food Photography, is the only book on the art of food photography dedicated exclusively to digital technology. Lou's website, http://www.loumanna.com, ranks #1 in Google searches for "food photographer."

Garfield HallGarfield Hall is a photographer located in the local New York/New Jersey metropolitan area. He specializes in advertising, editorial, fine art and stock photography and is represented by agencies in Europe, North America and Australia. His work has appeared in ad campaigns, magazines, books, billboards, brochures, annual reports and on websites. Garfield travels frequently to get stock imagery or work on self-assignments and personal projects. Recently, Garfield has been working on a series, in which he revisits his childhood home to document the artifacts from his past and to study the nature of the land that ushered him into this world. From the series he hopes to find the reason why his love of his childhood still haunts him today. To view his work, you may visit http://pa.photoshelter.com/c/garfieldhall.

WASHINGTON DC

David RiecksDavid is a respected correspondent, consultant and educator on metadata and workflow issues. As SAA's Imaging Technology Standards chair, he has led efforts to raise awareness of metadata issues industry wide and promote best practices to protect and preserve digital images. He has been a featured speaker at International Metadata Conference events, the Microsoft Pro Photo Summit, ASPP's Education Conference, PDN's PhotoPlus Expo, Picture Archive Council of America (PACA), and numerous association chapter events.

David has been a key participant in developing industry metadata standards, representing stock photographers as a participant in the IPTC4XMP working group, which developed the IPTC Core metadata schema, and authored the popular User's guide to the IPTC Core. He was a founding member of the Universal Photographic Digital Imaging Guidelines coalition (UPDIG), serves as the Chief Technical Advisor to the Picture Licensing Universal System coalition (PLUS), represents photographers on two IDEAlliance working groups (Digital Image Submission Criteria, and Digital Image Metadata Management) as well as the IPTC Photo Metadata Working group.

David has also authored numerous articles about digital imaging, and his ControlledVocabulary.com website and forum provides an invaluable resource to pros and students on keywording and embedding metadata into images, and he is sought after as a consultant by businesses building image collections.

Allen Murabayashi Allen Murabayashi was a member of his junior high photo club and shot with an Olympus OM-10. His most memorable experience loading film came when he stepped out of the darkroom and wondered why he was able to see the roll of film through the top of the tank (wrong cover). He graduated from Yale University, and took his first job in New York at Penthouse magazine, which helped him to continue his love affair with photography. He was a founding employee of hotjobs.com, and later co-founded PhotoShelter and serves as its CEO.

Joe TreshJoe Tresh picked up his first hand-me-down Polaroid instant camera as a toddler in the 1970s and continues in today's digital age to be fascinated by the still image's emotional strength and ability to capture history. He covers events and news in local communities, politics, personalities, protests, concerts, corporate events, and exclusive parties in Washington, D.C. His photography has been published in Der Spiegel, Advocate, Washington Post, Washington Blade, Bay Windows, Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Gay News, Bay Area Reporter, textbooks and more. Joe's work can be found at http://www.joetreshphoto.com

Randy SantosRandy Santos is a commercial/stock photographer based in Washington DC. 3 years ago he started http://www.dcstockimages.com, consisting of his collection of Washington DC images. By creating a niche, providing high quality imagery, and target marketing to a specific audience, he has successfully built a business distributing his stock images worldwide. His Washington DC Images are regularly featured in art installations, publications and various media throughout the world. Representative clients include Marriott Internationall, Hilton Hotels, NBC, the United States State Department, Jones Lang LaSalle, and HGTV. Randy's website ranks highly in Google searches for relevant terms like "Washington DC images" and "Washington DC photographer."

John Harrington

John Harrington, author of Best Business Practices for Photographers, has been a Washington photographer for 20 years and applied metadata to nearly 400,000 images he has registered with the U.S. Copyright Office. Website metadata, which regularly rank his site high among searches for Washington, D.C., photographers, have helped him secure assignments from the Wall Street Journal and a long list of trade magazines.

A 2007 recipient of the United Nations’ Leadership Award in photography, Harrington’s work has appeared in Time, Newsweek and Rolling Stone. His commercial clients have included Coca-Cola, SiriusXM Satellite Radio and Lockheed Martin. He has produced three commissioned books for the Smithsonian Institution and lectured across the United States at photographer gatherings. John is the current president of the White House News Photographers Association.

David RiecksDavid is a respected correspondent, consultant and educator on metadata and workflow issues. As SAA's Imaging Technology Standards chair, he has led efforts to raise awareness of metadata issues industry wide and promote best practices to protect and preserve digital images. He has been a featured speaker at International Metadata Conference events, the Microsoft Pro Photo Summit, ASPP's Education Conference, PDN's PhotoPlus Expo, Picture Archive Council of America (PACA), and numerous association chapter events.

David has been a key participant in developing industry metadata standards, representing stock photographers as a participant in the IPTC4XMP working group, which developed the IPTC Core metadata schema, and authored the popular User's guide to the IPTC Core. He was a founding member of the Universal Photographic Digital Imaging Guidelines coalition (UPDIG), serves as the Chief Technical Advisor to the Picture Licensing Universal System coalition (PLUS), represents photographers on two IDEAlliance working groups (Digital Image Submission Criteria, and Digital Image Metadata Management) as well as the IPTC Photo Metadata Working group.

David has also authored numerous articles about digital imaging, and his ControlledVocabulary.com website and forum provides an invaluable resource to pros and students on keywording and embedding metadata into images, and he is sought after as a consultant by businesses building image collections.